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Labours of the Months. Illustration from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1412-16, by Pol and Hermann de Limbourg, representing the month of August and depicting, in the foreground, the Nobility riding out to hunt with falcons while in the midground, the harvest takes place and the workers cool off in the river.
This is particularly true for the calendar images, which are the most commonly reproduced. They offer vivid representations of peasants performing agricultural work as well as aristocrats in formal attire, against a background of remarkable medieval architecture.
Jo Collins (Born Janet Canoy, on August 5, 1945, in Lebanon, Oregon) is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1964 and Playmate of the Year for 1965. Her original pictorial was photographed by Mario Casilli .
A list of all the holidays and observances in August 2022. Calendar days include National Girlfriend Day, National Dog Day, Women's Equality Day, and many more.
The eight-armed sun cross is often used to represent the modern pagan Wheel of the Year. The annual cycle of insolation for the northern hemisphere (Sun energy, shown in blue) with key points for seasons (middle), quarter days (top) and cross-quarter days (bottom) along with months (lower) and Zodiac houses (upper).
August 23, 1954 (age 69) Norfolk, Virginia. Height. 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) Cathy St. George (born August 23, 1954, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American model, actress, and make-up artist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1982 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus.
Pilar Lastra (born January 15, 1981) is a model and the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 2004. After her appearance in 2004, she stepped away from nude modeling but still worked for Playboy by hosting "The Playmate Hour" on Playboy Radio. Lastra was a model on Deal or No Deal.
The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days.
The year begins roughly in the month of August when the seeds are planted in anticipation of the next month's explosion of life. Phato (Pht.) (August) – from the verb -fata (dig) as the barren fields are ploughed and prepared in anticipation of the next months explosion of life.
Iconography of the month. The Calendar of Filocalus illustrated the month of August with a seasonal representation of summer's heat. A peacock fan overhangs a nude male who drinks from a large bowl, with his cast-off garment in the top right corner.